Expressive Waves in Watercolor

1. Intro: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the second lesson of our series on watercolor scape painting. Today we will dive into a technique, but that is simple yet extremely effective. I will teach you how to eliminate the unnecessary and focus on what's most important. This will help you to express the essence of the sea through its characteristic elements through waves. Let's start. 2. Plot: I suggest we paint a sunset sea together with the main goal being to show how you can simplify things and adapt them to your taste. For example, here, the sky attracts more attention. But since we're talking about the sea, we will shift the focus a bit. For this, we will make the sky less expressive. We will simplify both the colors and spread out the clouds. Artists are a bit like magicians. We will change and adapt to what we want to depict. What I want to show is an interesting way to depict waves. For this, we actually don't have to do much. The watercolor and water will do most of the work themselves. We just observe this amazing process. 3. Materials: Let's start with the materials. What do we need? You can use a sketchbook or watercolor sheet. If you're using a sheet, you will also need a drawing board on which you should fix a sheet with masking tape. I'll show you how. When the sheet is fixed, it's convenient to walk on it. It doesn't curl up or roll, and this makes the walk much easier. Okay. Ready. Next, what we need is watercolor pans. I choose these three colors. I like to limit the palette because the work looks more cohesive and harmonious this way. So I said just limits for myself. You can use watercolor in pans or tubes, whichever you prefer. We will need three colors. Can Okay. Orange, I've got enough of it here, and paints gray. I'll take them away. Next, the brush. I suggest trying to paint this walk with one brush and such a brush is often universal. It is medium sized made of squirrel or Koski hair or an imitation on this. In general, it should have soft bristles, be medium sized and preferably have a sharp tip. In today's walk, we may not need the tip, but it's essential to have such a brush in your arsenal. We will also need tissues, a water container, and a pencil just to draw the horizon line and the sun. Let's get started. 4. Watercolor drawing: Since we are talking about the sea, we move the horizon line above the middle. Approximately one third of the space will be for the sky, maybe a bit more, and the rest will be the sea. I will slightly shift the sun and place it in this pot, and after that, we won't need the pencil anymore. Everything else will be done with watercolor. Now let me explain the steps. We start with filling the sky with a bright rich orange. We begin to fill it in and then smoothly transition to a grayish blue shape. Maybe we will add a few clouds but not too bright to draw attention. Next, we move on to painting the sea. We paint on dry paper. We use a wet brush and the liquid mixture to make the gradient. Let's start with drawing clear and confident lines. We fell in the area carefully around the sun. If it turns out a bit crooked, it's okay. We can fix it later. Then we dilute the color with water. And after that transition into blue. You can add a bit of gray at the top. Okay. Let's draw light clouds without any details right here. Let's the brush and make the con around the sun bright and slightly blue edges. Okay. Next, we start on the sea. We need to fill the entire area with one wash. The farther we go, and the water becomes. We will use all three colors the slightly. Okay. Let's start. Make the first line of the wash. Continue filling this area. Mx orange and fill it all the way to the end with this color. Okay. If there is too much liquid, you can blot it. Now we need to create an imitation of waves with water. We need to clean water for this. We just the steams flow and they will paint for us in some areas. Take away all unnecessary color pigment with a clean brush. The most important scene is not overdo it and add water while the pin hasn't fully absorbed yet. I also want to add another wave in the background, but the pin there has already dried, so it will be slightly harder to draw. You can apply clean water and then remove the pigment with the brush, making the area lighter. Let's help water to do its work. We have created interesting patterns that highlight the lightness of watercolor, which everyone for. We can see that are minimal actions but to achieve their desired effect. I also wanted to mention that on different papers, such effects show up differently. You can use cellulose or cotton paper. They will produce different results. I recommend trying both options so you can understand the difference and choose what you like best. It doesn't take much time. Small addition. I want to slightly soften the tradition. I'm doing this with a clean brush. Okay. You also may do this if you want. Now I will dry the walk with a head dryer and we see the final result. Before removing the tape, make sure that the walk is, or you might remove of the surface with it. We have made a quick and light sketch, but you can always vary the degree of complexity. Here, you could add some splashes or shift your focus to another area, and each time you will get a unique walk. And I can't wait to see your C. Be sure to and share your walks with me. Thank you for your attention. 5. Conclusion: Now, our lesson has come to an end, and I want to ask your question. How did you manage to pay the waves than this method. I'm eagerly awaiting your works to see how you apply this technique. Don't forget that the continuation of our series will be come in very soon, and the plot will be even more exciting. For those who met the beginning, I recommend watching the first lesson of the s to ensure you don't miss out on this exciting creative Journey. There we paint the calm yet very appealing stillness of the water. The link will be below. And for now, I want to say goodbye, but only for a short while.